Gathered for Lowell’s centenary from lectures and reviews never before collected, these essays show the poet of The Biglow Papers at work as a critic. He writes on poetry and belles-lettres, on humour, wit, fun and satire, on the five authors no reader can do without, on imagination, and on contemporaries including a young Henry James.
Shrewd, witty criticism from one of the leading American men of letters of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.